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Harvard then took the kick-off and began to weave downfield for its third straight scoring series. Polillio seemed transformed into a whirling dervish as the darkness descended. He scored his second touchdown of the quarter on a 28-yd. run, breaking a tackle at the line, cutting to the outside, and then blazing down the right sideline...
...ball fell short, and as it fell it broke the spell that made fog-enshrouded Harvard Stadium on Saturday afternoon a charmed circle of 23,000 onlookers and 22 men on the field.CrimsonJoel BallRALPH POLILLIO [22] streaks into the endzone for a 28-yd. touchdown run while a fan registers his jubilation in the background. Polillio's score came with eight minutes left in the game and at the time gave Harvard a 30-23 lead. Polillio had a superlative day, rushing for 67 yards in the second half and catching six passes in the game...
Instead, the hours have been spent in pensive thought; not, however, of Ralph Polillio's unbridled dominance, of Al MacMurray's punts that torpedoed field position, or of the fact that Marko Coric has made us all forget about Bob Baggott. Indeed, the curtain calls for all the gallant warriors have tragically not materialized...
...they? On second down Brown pitched to Polillio on the right for no gain. Not only was it a risky play to run in the darkness, but Harvard was still not in the middle of the field...
Coach Joe Restic, emotionally overcome after the game, said that his thinking about running the pitch to Polillio in that situation was "the same as our thinking when we ran him wide and he scored." Trouble was, the wide side in this instance was the left, not the right...